Magdalena Armas
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PhD student - Genome Function lab @TheCrick 👩🏻🔬 Studying variant effects 🧬 in human T cells 🧫
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The Francis Crick Institute
about 1 month ago
Congratulations to
@gregfindlay.bsky.social
on being awarded a €1.5 million Starting Grant from the
@erc.europa.eu
to take a closer look at possible disease variants hiding in the dark genome.
www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09...
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€1.5 million to uncover disease risk hiding in non-coding DNA
Greg Findlay, Group Leader of the Genome Function Laboratory at the Francis Crick Institute, has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council for €1.5 million to take a deep dive i...
https://www.crick.ac.uk/news/2025-09-04_eu15-million-to-uncover-disease-risk-hiding-in-non-coding-dna
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Atlas of Variant Effects Alliance
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Coming up! ℹ️
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Thrilled to have been selected as a speaker at
#ASHG2025
🧬 Annual Meeting in Boston. If you are interested in the development of high-throughput assays to test non-coding variant effects come join us at Session 53 on Thursday, October 16th!
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Greg Findlay
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Our latest research is out today on @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk. Led by the amazing Phoebe Dace. This one’s packed full of data, so check out the paper. Quick highlights… 🧵 1/n
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Saturation genome editing of BRCA1 across cell types accurately resolves cancer risk
Germline pathogenic BRCA1 variants predispose women to breast and ovarian cancer. Despite accumulation of functional evidence for variants in BRCA1 , over half of reported single-nucleotide variants (...
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.11.25333423v1
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Greg Findlay
6 months ago
We're hiring again! Now looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join us on our mission to improve methods for testing human variants at scale. 🔎🧬🧪 Many potential projects to tackle, all in the top-tier research environment of the
@crick.ac.uk
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Thank you
@gregfindlay.bsky.social
! It was an honour to receive this award in the Houses of Parliament, a huge recognition to the work we do in the lab!
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Greg Findlay
7 months ago
We're recruiting a senior scientist. Great opportunity for somebody interested in building a career in the wonderfully supportive research environment that is the Crick. 🧪
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Senior Laboratory Research Scientist - Findlay Lab
Salary for this Role: Between £39,950 and £45,825 dependent on skills and experience Job Title: Senior Laboratory Research Scientist - Findlay Lab Reports to: Greg Findlay Closing Date: 23/Mar/2025 23...
https://crick.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/External/job/London/Senior-Laboratory-Research-Scientist---Findlay-Lab_R2091-2
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